[SunRescue] Mixing 10 & 100Mbps Ethernet

[Gregory Leblanc]

On 21 Feb 2001 19:02:58 -0500, Craig Steinberger wrote:
> OpenBSD supports the hme and qfe cards very well.  As for backwards
> compatible networks, I think all 100Mbps devices will have backwards support
> for 10 Mbps. 

Eh?  No, not at all.  Most NICs that I've seen at 10/100, and not
straight 100, but I've got a fairly large number of 100Mbit multi-port
bridges that don't work at all with 10Mbit devices.  I'm sure that we'll
have 10/100/1000MBit bridges, hubs, and routers before too long.  But
things will seem damn slow going from that SS2 with it's 10MBit LE to my
SunBlade 85,000,000 with Gig ethernet.  :-)

    Greg